I was 20, naive and foolish. I spent a year auditioning for various drama schools but RADA was the one I liked most.
I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.
If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.
Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.
I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.
I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
A couple of weeks before I started auditioning for 'Sex Education,' I was very convinced I was going to quit acting.
Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.
I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.
I always wanted to be an actor and started modelling for various commercials when I was 16 and when I was in Class XII, got 'Issaq' through auditioning.
It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.
I love auditioning because I also get the confidence that I can play the character and the producer is aware of what I can do.
I had to go through a grilling process to meet Mr. Aditya Chopra. It took a lot of time and auditioning.
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.
I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.
I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.
We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.
I didn't want to act in high school, because I was sick of auditioning for Nickelodeon, Disney mean girls, or the cheerleader.
I had started in the comedy world in a more traditional way. I was auditioning for TV, film, and commercials while I was making these Web videos from my house.
There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.
I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.
Auditioning is like boxing: It keeps me hungry and intense, whether I get the part or not.
I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.
The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that, I did little shows and started auditioning.
I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great.
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
I do think there are trends in your life once you've been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.
When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.
I didn't start auditioning until my 10th birthday when I auditioned for 'Matilda' The Musical in London! It was actually the first time I realized that it was a career I could pursue.
When I got the script for 'Mr. Robot,' I was auditioning for a bunch of stuff. I had an audition going for a movie at the time that I wanted to do.
I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's exactly what I have to play.
When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!
Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning, and I loved it.
I've really fought to get into rooms, and I'm a big believer in auditioning. It's hard, because I'm insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.
If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV and film, and that whole world.
I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I didn't get to a point where I was auditioning for any bands.
I used to love auditioning. I loved going into the room and meeting casting directors.
Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.
Since leaving 'Hollyoaks', I've moved down to London and I've been auditioning here quite a lot.
I started acting when I was seven, and I didn't get my first role till I was nine. So for two years, I was just auditioning.
I had always done broader characters, but going to UCB and speaking to my own voice was important for auditioning for TV and film.
Your artistry is a muscle that needs to be exercised, so if all you are doing is auditioning, you'll never get the satisfaction of fulfilling the need to play the part.
After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.
I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so young: I was literally just out of college.
I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.
And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after.
If an actor ever says they really enjoy the auditioning process, I truly believe that they're lying. It's an anxiety-filled waking nightmare. It's awful.
There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.
I’d been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions.
I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.
Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it.
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